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Ethnic groups in Afghanistan as of 1997. Afghanistan is a multiethnic and mostly tribal society. The population of the country consists of numerous ethnolinguistic groups: mainly the Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, and Uzbek, as well as the minorities of Aimaq, Turkmen, Baloch, Pashai, Nuristani, Gujjar, Brahui, Qizilbash, Pamiri, Kyrgyz, Moghol, and others.
An Afghan family from the Pashtun ethnicity in their home in Kabul. Structure of the population (2012.01.07) (Data refer to the settled population based on the 1979 Population Census and the latest household prelisting. The refugees of Afghanistan in Iran, Pakistan, and an estimated 1.5 million nomads, are not included): [31]
The less common Afghanistani (افغانستانی) is an alternative identity marker for citizens of Afghanistan. The term "Afghanistani" refers to someone who is a citizen of Afghanistan, [72] regardless of race, ethnicity or religion. [73] [74] In multiethnic Afghanistan, the term "Afghan" has always been associated with the Pashtun people ...
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan. Some sources claim that Hazaras comprise about 20 to 30 percent of the total population of Afghanistan. [145] [65] [115] [146] They were, by far, the largest ethnic group in the past. During the 1888–1893 uprisings, over sixty percent of Hazaras were massacred, and many were displaced. Meanwhile, they lost a ...
Ethnic groups in Afghanistan by province (23 C) A. Afghan Jews (1 C, 5 P) Afghan nomads (6 P) Afghan people by ethnicity (3 C) Ancient peoples of Afghanistan (3 C, 11 P)
Afghan Americans are composed of the various ethnic groups that exist in Afghanistan, which include Pashtun, Tajik, Hazara, Uzbek, Turkmen, Baloch, and a number of others. [45] Since 1945, Afghan Americans have been officially classified as Caucasians. [46] For U.S. Census purposes Afghans are racially categorized as White Americans. [47]
Afghans, historically refers to the Pashtun people. It is both an ethnicity and nationality. Ethnicity wise, it refers to the Pashtuns. In modern terms, it means both the citizens of Afghanistan and Afghans, a country in Central Asia (of any ethnicity) Afghan (ethnonym), the historic term applied strictly to people of the Pashtun ethnicity
Historically, the ethnonym Afghān was used to refer to ethnic Pashtuns. [46] The Arabic and Persian form of the name, Afġān, was first attested in the 10th-century geography book Hudud al-'Alam. [47] The last part of the name, "-stan", is a Persian suffix meaning "place of". Therefore, "Afghanistan" translates to "land of the Afghans", or ...